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Cardiac tamponade as the initial presentation of hypothyroidism is extremely rare. We report the case of a 48-year-old man admitted for acute respiratory distress, with cardiac ultrasound showing ...

Correspondence to Dr. Allan L Klein, Center for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Pericardial Diseases, Heart and Vascular Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio ...

This is called pericardial effusion. If the amount of fluid increases quickly, it can impair how the heart pumps blood. This condition is called pericardial tamponade. Children may not be able to ...

Metastatic breast cancer presenting with both cardiac tamponade and bilateral vocal cord paralysis is rare. We report a case of an elderly patient with breast cancer who had previously undergone right ...

except in cases with repeated recurrences with cardiac tamponade and evidence of serious steroid toxicity, although other approaches may be equally effective and less invasive (e.g., pericardial ...

Acute pericardial disease (acute pericarditis and cardiac tamponade) was the first manifestation of previously unknown malignancies in 18 out of 450 patients (4.0%) and lung cancer was the most ...

This article discusses the diagnosis and management of myocarditis and pericarditis (both acute and recurrent), as well as other pericardial diseases. Myocarditis is the term used to indicate acute ...

The doctor will listen with a stethoscope for signs of excess fluid. They’ll also listen for a pericardial rub, the noise of your pericardium rubbing against the outer layer of your heart.